[puts on they live sun glasses] The Times: Get back to work bringing me treats.

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The only three good things from dead- end jobs

1. Respect for poor folk

2. Understanding that works ruins the soul of humanity

3. The conditions create mental rumination on radical theory.

I came to left theory working at a "fancy" hotel as bellboy. I saw how bad our immigrants/"illegal" workers were treated by management and a certain grimy type of guest. I saw how my paycheck was utterly dependent on the random kindness from strangers.

I saw how they discouraged us from pooling tips as they thought we wouldnt work as hard. We did it anyways and we all made sure we all went home from a shift with some decent scratch . I saw how the women were overtly harasseed and some dudes were too but that was more the DL.

I felt the alienation of not making enough money to rent a room in this damn place. I saw how I had zero future to "grow" in the company, I saw how the hotel was just a giant real estate scam.

I didnt have the langauge or theory at the time but I saw everything I hated about capitalism. I was a dumb high school/community college loser, but I knew that the system was wack and the hotel was a microcasm of the wackness. I just used the word "power" at the time and understood how little of it I had.

I don't think anyone should have to work a dead-end job or any job they don't enjoy to be honest. Work isn't inherently bad, but how we work these most certainly is. There is so much "work" that just doesn't need to exist.

The work that actually needs to be done is undervalued and under developed. This shit gets me heated. If anything work could be much more meaningful and impactful if we didn't have this "Bullshit Jobs" infrastructure that Graeber talked about in his book. R.I.P. to a really one

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Even "good" jobs'll kill ya

A spectre is haunting the NYT Times UK

The spectre of David Graeber